tonight on our t. and t. fracking rage in romania clashes erupt in a village between police and locals who don't want america's energy giant chevron to drill for gas shale in the area. top e.u. politicians the central kiev again reaffirming their support for the anti-government demonstrations which showed no signs of dying down despite the cold weather. and this morning from nelson mandela continues world wide we look at the concerns that traces of south africa's tainted past may return this time for the country's minority. very good morning for me kevin omer of you watching around the world just past

midnight now here at r.t. h.q. in moscow in our top story this morning and anti fracking protests in northeast romania's turn violent clashes a broken up between police and locals who are trying to stop the u.s. all joined chevron for drilling for shale gas in their area artie's lucy catherine office at the site of the unrest. we're here in this is just moments after a very tense clashes between protesters who are against chevron conducting exploration for shale gas drilling here in this area in northeastern mania what you see behind me over there is actually the chevron site now protesters had ran across the street they broke down the perimeter of the chevron location tore down the fences and entered the area there were actually inside the chevron test exploration area the police had to run and there weren't arrests made at the moment but then as you can see these units riot police officers had been called into the area this is

when things very much escalated we had several protesters arrested there were between the police and the demonstrators and actually if we pan over here you can see people very upset about what's happening here with chevron and. these protesters who have been camped out here for over a month earlier and that's the count was actually broken up by riot police officers today saturday was supposed to be a major protest there and they're still trying to get chevron to leave because although chevron and october announced it was seizing operations the work had begun these police officers are not going anywhere as you can see they're trying to keep the protesters contained to this area so that they don't break out again and go on to the chevron site now we did see several arrests some people had been injured they were taken out in medical vans we don't know exactly how many and again it's a tense tense environment these people are very unhappy with the conduct of the police not just today but earlier and they're very unhappy that chevron is

continuing these operations they feel that although chevron says that it's trying to do this in a responsible way the people here feel like they haven't been consulted they feel like their point of view isn't being taken into consideration and we have to keep in mind that this is a farming area people here rely on the land to survive if the water does get. chaminade in which is something that they fear will happen as a result of the fracking their very existence is threatened which is why they're so frustrated with the situation in point jesse tense environment the demonstration continues it's unclear what will make these protesters leave as you can see if we turn around they're sitting down they're staying their ground they don't want to leave this area and. of course we'll keep you posted with developments in romania you can also following lucy on twitter account. should locals fear the substances used for cumulative the soil and pollute ground water the water table even go into the most of the chemicals were made of the

ground for years to come activists clear the rover of documented cases of water good to have a nation near drilling sites with health impacts including sensory and respiratory damage at the fracking campaign at each other but told me earlier that authorities worldwide stay silent about fracking precisely because of the possible houses. there's no regulation going to be in this country or in any other way all this specifically designed to break you like this industry because they know full well they can't adequately regulated is there an exaggeration of the potential problems here are we looking at fact difficult to quantify you know the recent school cd dealing with the vagaries of very deep geology and it's basically the whole realm of the unknown fractions that go for thirteen years or more that started last large scale at the turn of the century do you feel you've lost your battle then when the police are there supposedly to protect and serve the community with all that's

happening is that being deployed going governments to protect and serve the interest of the big businesses we should basically back in these governments. that's the situation we've got in that's why we've got people off you know we can't rely on the police to protect our communities where i'm just protect our own communities by this sort of action it was seen you know in the main all over the world you know the stories were from child everywhere it goes people are going to be up in arms about it because we know that we can't rely on our government we can rely on the police to protect our communities from these threats. next to the public protests in ukraine again a delegation of euro and pays are spoken to the crowds in kiev the protesters have three more days now that the camp from government buildings with the latest is are to pull scott in kiev. the crowds behind me were addressed by

a group of enemy peace who once again reiterated their support for the protesters now the delegation met with opposition leaders and also mingled with the crowd but they didn't meet any representatives of the government of course the government survived a vote of no confidence in the wake of that despite that results the delegation still backed cools for a snap election we see that people will growing made that choice for a. country really believes in freedom. and under the rule of law if the op was listening quote the only other. democratic from grew every time it was the right what was the. well the opposition continue their blockade of certain government buildings despite the fact a deadline set by the government for them to be out of those buildings is looming large in expires on tuesday on the delegations support for the opposition comes

despite pleas from ukraine's prime minister for outside interference to stop well as for the protests they look set to continue into the evening here behind me with all eyes now on sunday when organizers hope that up to one million people from all over ukraine could descend on the capital. but earlier us the german m.e.p. why european politicians are cozying up to ukraine's opposition now it's not against. ship i think there's just so dire solidarity of a stir protesters and i think we want that association agreement this deal is signed bond of car still crying to be on a long term member of the union. and therefore be a system. some political commentators though say the assistance by western politicians now is simply unacceptable. maija need for any ukrainian or russian or

any other diplomats or former politicians or politicians will take part and then your demonstration against the e.u. will in all across other severely europe and that would cause an uproar the point probably even in the western countries going to the united nations and asking for a meeting of the security council because that is blatant into feeling so this isn't got nothing to do with people power as they claim some some politicians like to say about that under the rule of law does not involve foreign diplomats and foreign politicians interfering and basically provoking this violence like it's happening in ukraine. journalist martensite who followed ukraine's recent history believes the bid to divide among its people would only deepen if the e.u. association deal but i think it would be a nightmare come true in the long term ukraine and the european union have a locks again from increased relationships with each other but the package that the

e.u. was proposing and the price you create would pay and severed ties with russia and the east bloc would in the short term cause a very we'll drop of standard of living for the ukrainian people much greater energy price costs and the european union and european commission given their own financial woes would not be in the position to give ukraine the necessary financial support it would need in these situations the european union has major problems within its own area that it really must result of before it can really new its all first to reach out to nations like ukraine and i think there really needs to be a fundamental reassessment in brussels of what ukraine needs which has not been adequately recognized in brussels. meantime investigations underway into allegations of brutality from both police and pro e.u. activists that unfolded last week covering that side of the story the smaller user in english going out. it grew by me now why don't you call the worst moment was

when i saw people being beaten on the ground at my feet they were just kids and i couldn't do anything about it and it was terrible it must never happen again. the night of november thirtieth when peaceful protests in the heart of kiev were broken up by ukraine special right police force dozens and up in hospitals images of police beating defenseless people emerged on the internet the. was the next day it was the police on the receiving end of the violence but at the hands of a mob and not the peaceful protesters who were dispersed just the day before. i got hit by either a brick or a piece of pavement score in the face it's hard to tell because everything was flying no one could predict it would go like this that there would be rocks bricks

molotov cocktails. i was scared for my units who were there because it was totally unexpected right in front of all of this there were these boys eighteen nineteen years old who serve in the army and everything was flying at them rocks molotov cocktails these men are among the officers still in hospital a week after the attack some received injuries severe enough to leave them disabled or to convince them to leave the force but both. i determined to return to service and see did don't have any animosity towards the crowd on independence square i can understand the people they want to express their opinion. people have the right to voice their opinion but without breaking the law it would not be an overstatement to say that many people here. in the mean number one especially after last week's intense clashes there is a pretty their. police force were simply following they have received it and

it's those who gave the orders that should be held responsible for the violence so . the recordings on the internet of the actual orders that received. to clear we must create a parliamentary commission and find the person who blew it all up and hold them criminally responsible i'm sure the orders came from someone higher than the head of police. as the protests enter their third week the tension is palpable no one wants a repeat of last week's nightmare but a resolution requiring calmer efforts from both sides among people whose patience is already wearing were. frayed online to find out what. spoke to. meeting recently. some of the speculation. britain is prison is becoming

a breeding ground for extremists coming up with this program a crackdown on hate preaching behind bars is on the way to try to stop. radicalized cells. in the brain. from countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa as a colony it's a colony of the big. those home leaders who are under the thumbs of the big corporations so they have to beg from the world bank's development of social programs goes to pay back debts whole country is drowning under the amount of debt that they did and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money to pay back oh this. money really.

the wages of debt. right on the scene. first for you and i would think that you're. on our reporter's twitter. and instagram. could be in the know. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years people came here twenty some years ago and so are you stablished and i stick wife on the silence. and people fuel the love of christ all working. people say you can catch.

something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only. hello again the man who led south africa out of his darkest days of apartheid nelson mandela will be laid to rest on december the fifteenth that his family estate but can the change in a quality embodied be maintained in a country which suffered such deep scars. of

a different chapter on segregation soon lies ahead. for many years south africans in particular have been asking themselves the question what happens when mandela pos is on and for a long time there was a war we that everything he stood for which was essentially bringing white and black south africans to give it would disappear when he dies this question has become this urgent as the years have passed on and a new generation of south africans has come to the fore but certainly there are pockets of particularly white south africans who are today afraid now i visited the community of claim fun tain which is a white on cave they you find only off the condos now these are white south africans who can trace the roots back to european settlers who came in the sixteen hundreds you need special permission to enter the area there are security guards everywhere there are statues paying tribute to the founders of a party which was south africa's legal system of discrimination between blacks and

whites people there justified the existence of such enclaves as merely a way of preserving their history their culture their language they argue against any kind of claims of racism we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect that and preserve it this together with the fear that some white of economists feel has caused some to put in place contingency plans now there's a group called the state land as they estimate that their figures are around eighty to one hundred thousand people and they are all linked through mobile phones in such a way that if in any time they believe a genocide happens and they do believe that a genocide is coming against white south africans they can then mobilize him selves and move to an area where they will be able to both protect themselves and be completely self-sufficient and i visited this community and this is what they had to tell me right now oh we're this stage or little six little sort of is really

a true community story these white south africans are where. are in the minority the majority really credit mandela with putting the country back on the brink of civil war regardless of the color of the skin they race creed their religion south africans regard mandela as the hero of the struggle against apartheid and see him as one of the greatest sons this country has ever given to. those big stories front she was launched a second major intervention in africa this year present the lawns and raise the deployment of one thousand six hundred troops on the ground in the central african republic the soldiers with armored personnel carriers have now moved beyond the capital bangui to patrol remote areas where the violence is at its most intense fear is clashes on thursday left almost three hundred dead parents began to send reinforcements hours of the u.n. authorized the mission to quell a spike in sectarian bloodshed the thousands of civilians have fled to the

country's main airport to seeking refuge from the armed fighters christian militias loyal to the ousted president to battling muslim rebels who currently control the country we spoke to lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine he believes france's domestic problems are behind this latest move. recently france has become more active militarily and i think the problem with that there france and britain have not given up their intent on having at the news of some of the resources and wealth of the african countries or so i think france is suffering serious problems at home there is a devastating collapse in living standards throughout all of europe so many things i think combining to push france forward into some of these more terry activity is. more of them recently than we've seen before. the british government's

measures to stifle the spread of extremism it follows the brutal murder of a u.k. soldier poisonous in london the plan includes blocking jihadist material on the web and cracking down on hate preaching but is artie's laura smith reports next the country's jails are also becoming a breeding ground for radicalism wormwood scrubs prison in west london temporary or longer term home to around fourteen hundred male prisoners apart from the inevitable gang activity and drug taking that goes on inside many prison inmates find religion while they're doing their stretch some are genuine others not so much. those who watch on to and use that religion is an excuse for treatment and we're particularly concerned by doctrine is clear evidence that there are youngsters being radicalized. and forced to join the rest of causation of young

vulnerable prisoners. who then can become a tree machine as well evidence from the prison office's union shows prisoners are necessarily so much finding gods as having shoved in their faces muslim gangs have grown in power and influence in jails all over the country and the prison officers association is concerned that they target vulnerable new arrivals for conversion and that those who are muslims already are being forced into more extremist views you speak to some prisoners or noble tell you. it's better food or not it to get more time. or just to be seen as to be part of a gun culture i've done it for protection i've done it because i was buoyed extremists who are ultimately released from behind these walls back into society. big success stories lined up on line for most tonight been a foreigner stuck in a north korean jail can't be easy so how do you get out if you find yourself in

that predicament probably apologize for your war crimes that zigzagged clear what an eighty five year old u.s. veteran had to do that will free head twelve website r.t. dot com to get his story while you're there too in egypt seems more moved people are being thrown behind bars for not keeping aligned with the ruling military there comes got details of the almost daily arrests. right from the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on our reporter's twitter. instagram i. will be in the middle. on. the day's big stories in brief world trade organizations agreed on a landmark deal which could provide

a trillion dollar boost to the global economy the grave is designed to speed up cross border trade by slashing red tape at customs checkpoints the analysts say this will also give a lift to developing nations too by creating up to twenty million jobs there it's the first global trade deal of its kind but as yet to be ratified by each member government in mexico we've been covering the story for the last couple of days you may recall six people suspected of stealing that truck with highly radioactive material from a medical scanner a been released themselves know from hospital only the youngest suspect aged around sixteen was found to have traces of radioactive poisoning those men will now remain in detention for further questioning the vehicle at the time was carrying streatley dangerous cobalt sixty for a body scanner when it was hijacked at gunpoint in the capitol earlier this week. it's where the world's most popular vacation spots but those who try to settle down in paris often find their romantic notions shattered. explains.

it all looks great on paper but anyone with an aspiration of living in central paris quickly discovers the nightmare and becomes looking for what here this picture us the center of the city might as well have a sign that says off limits to anyone with a tight budget but if you must prepare for very tight quarters when you first arrive to the fire i was completely shocked because this was the smallest area that i found myself i didn't look it's from here to here. danica pay seven hundred seventy year old for this tiny twenty square metres central paris flat in the popular lot in quarter area plus another hundred for bills and internet she chose convenience over price a choice that's not quite there for others like sabina who lives just outside paris with three other people her bedroom in the basement. was about five hundred euros when i moved here so. i was looking on internet for place for five hundred euros

couldn't find anything really. expensive visited a few places. couldn't find it so i decided to. close in more extreme cases not only do people end up far from the center but in apartments like this one where there's no kitchen or hot water so. it's a real problem for this lack of housing we need a hundred to nine hundred thousand more housing this is what explains the high prices in july report released by france's national institute of statistics and economic studies found that one hundred forty one thousand five hundred people were without a fixed residency in france a rent control law was recently passed as part of a larger housing reform to address the lack of housing substandard conditions and the trend of people being pushed out of paris and other major cities but changes in living standards won't come overnight a fact many in the city of lights have just come to accept.

ok and if he. does or cilia r.t. paris i'm kevin owen but with a next full news update about thirty four minutes time coming up here on out international next a report on aid programs in africa the don't seem to bring any hope to the poor and if you're watching us in the u.k. we've got going to grow with afshin rattansi will cease. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making a historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people

want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word generally nationalist like their culture and the people who are part of it but if you look at migration trends within the e.u. we see that the slavic part of it is flooding western europe looking for work i have many relatives from the slavic part of the e.u. and almost all of them have to work abroad and might sound nice to be able to work in europe but the reality is that ukrainians will probably be paid even less than bulgarians rumanians to clean toilets in london ukrainian nationalists don't have to like russia or join the customs union or join any bloc of countries but advocating a future for themselves the e.u. seems absolutely backwards at least to me but that's just my opinion.

dependent on the world bank and the international monetary fund africa finds itself . crippled by foreign debt and remains a continent of great poverty and inequality is. as long as we are in thrall to and dominated by debt i do even go so far as to say enslaved. there is no attention paid to social affairs like health and education can you imagine if we have to sacrifice congolese children who have to die who cannot study because they have to pay for the debt. and the international community talks about generosity now they are talking about cancelling the debt as an act of generosity by controlling the country's resources. that they say the debt is used to keep countries with natural resources under control. it is used to control countries in the southern hemisphere both politically and economically.

today we've got less than five percent of the world's population living in the united states consuming almost thirty percent of the resources and roughly half the world is living in poverty close to starvation are actually starving that's a failure it's not a model it's not something that can be replicated in africa or india or latin america so it's a failed system we know that it's a failed system. like the world bank and the international monetary fund play a crucial role in the entire history of the.